Battery Park is a new 12 000 sqm urban park situated at a key entranceway to one of Africa’s most visited tourist destinations, the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. Developed as the nucleus of a larger urban vision for the district, the site includes a park and piazza that effectively conceal a 1 206-bay parking facility as well as new pedestrian routes to … [Read more...]

One of the most spoken about new buildings to open its doors in Cape Town recently, has undoubtedly been the new Zeitz Mocca Museum for Contemporary Art located in the V&A Waterfront.
Originally an old grain silo complex that consists of forty-two, 33-metre-high concrete tubes – each with a diameter of 5.5 metres - this was once the tallest building on the Cape Town … [Read more...]

More than four years in the making, the V&A Waterfront’s R500-million project to reimagine the historic grain silo into the world’s largest museum dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora has reached completion, culminating in the official public opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) on Friday, 22 September.
Conceptualised … [Read more...]

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